Adjusted sales that month were up a relatively steep 2.5% from those of the month before, which in turn were slightly higher than the January low of $17.8 billion.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.

The Jewish holiday Tu Bishvat, the new year for trees, is on the 15th day of the month of Shvat, which usually falls in January or February.

It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.

January is the coldest month, with temperatures ranging from 1 to 13 degree Celsius ( 33 – 55 ° F ).

January is normally the wettest month, averaging of precipitation.

In much of the north, the average daily maximum temperature is about during January, the coolest month of the year, and about during May, the hottest month.

January is the coolest month, and April is the warmest.

As of 1999, Health Canada announced a policy to defer individuals from donating blood if they have lived within the United Kingdom for one month or more from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996.

Defender Tommy Caton, who had been out of action due to injury since January 1991, announced his retirement from playing on medical advice in March 1993, having failed to recover full fitness, and he died suddenly at the end of the following month, aged just 30 years.

Using a three-digit Julian day number saves one byte of computer storage over a two-digit month plus two-digit day, for example, " January 17 " is 017 in Julian versus 0117 in month-day format.

December was also the tenth month in the Roman calendar until a monthless winter period was divided between January and February.

In January 1944, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.

January is on average the coldest month, while July is the warmest.

January is the wettest month with 25 cm ( 14 in.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

In each solar year ( 1 January to 31 December inclusive ), the lunar month beginning with an ecclesiastical new moon falling in the 29-day period from 8 March to 5 April inclusive is designated as the paschal lunar month for that year.

Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday.

In December the government announced that it intended to triple the licence fee from £ 1 to £ 3 a month, from 1 January 1852.

The specific cause is not known, but in January 1580 Oxford wrote and challenged Sidney ; by the end of the month Oxford was confined to his chambers, and was not released until early February.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

At a rate of $3.22 an hour he is now earning approximately $580 a month.

A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of lead as long as the market price for common lead at New York, New York, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 75 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

However, if their United States income is not subject to the withholding of tax on wages, their returns are due June 15, 1962, if they use a calendar year, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of their fiscal year.

If you are a nonresident alien and a resident of Puerto Rico, your return is also due June 15, 1962, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of your fiscal year.

And how very often a water plane is featured in his landscapes, and how appropriate that he should appear in American Artist again, in his natal month of March!!

Public indignation and resistance to wage-price increases is obviously much less when the increases are on the order of 3% per annum than when the increases are on the order of 3% per month.

Although the training is only for one month, it is intensive and thorough.

It is just bad luck that we are having the party in a month with no R's, so no oysters.

It is the only county in the state so far this month reporting a possible shortage in GA category, for which emergency allotment can be given by the state if necessary.

That is the goal of two new collections being introduced in Dallas this month.

A Plenary Indulgence under the usual conditions is granted once a month for the daily reading ''.

A weekly showcase for contemporary music, from the austere archaism of Stravinsky to the bleeps and bloops of electronic music, is celebrating its fourth anniversary this month.

The first Saturday in each month is set aside for new recordings.

The name is certainly cognate with the Doric month name Απέλλαιος and the Doric festival απελλαι.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

April is the fourth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and one of four months with a length of 30 days.

The Venerable Bede says in The Reckoning of Time that this month Eostur is the root of the word Easter.